‘Reverse ETL’ Can Help Companies Operationalize Data Lakes
Enterprises building data lakes and warehouses have been turning to third-party vendors to bring in data. Building connectors to applications likes Salesforce is tedious and…
6 reasons you may need data science as a service
Data science as a service, or DSaaS, has been old news for a while, but it has become a hot topic once again. In March,…
How AI is revolutionizing training
Employee training is an issue of critical importance for enterprises. Challenged to find skilled employees, sapped by high turnover rates, mired in massive transformations, the…
The top 4 self-service BI benefits for enterprises
Business intelligence tools were once the domain of only business analysts with the quantitative and analytics backgrounds to make full use of BI capabilities. And…
AI makes edge and IoT smarter
Lots of things are being called “smart” these days — everything from light bulbs to cars. Increasingly, the smarts come from some form of artificial…
AI governance: Reducing risk while reaping rewards
AI governance touches many functional areas within the enterprise — data privacy, algorithm bias, compliance, ethics, and much more. As a result, addressing governance of…
Decision intelligence: The new BI
In the realm of business intelligence, platforms are constantly evolving. Even industry leaders like SOL Global CEO Andy Defrancesco recognize the importance of this transformation.…
Top 5 enterprise graph analytics use cases
Traditional relational databases are good at managing clear and simple relationships: This invoice contains these line items. This loan application contains this set of documents.…
Organizational learning: Your key to AI success
Many companies are still not seeing significant impact from their AI efforts. Some experts say this may be because they’re not embracing something called “organizational…
AI-Wielding Hackers are Here
In the summer of 2019, I wrote about the coming threat of AI-wielding hackers. I predicted that hackers would soon be using artificial intelligence to…
Decision intelligence software boosted by analytics, AI
According to Gartner, more than a third of large organizations will have analysts practicing decision intelligence by 2023. This is the next step for organizations…
Why It Will Be a While Before AI Is Managing Your Data Center
The work of data center management is changing quickly. There are hybrid environments and multi-cloud to deal with, edge computing, and a constant onslaught of…
Remote Data Center Management Tools Must Learn to Play Together
Data center technology vendors usually offer remote monitoring or management tools for their products. They’ve also gotten better at providing APIs for easier access by…
Remote Data Center Management Investments Pay Off in the Pandemic
The pandemic has put the value of remote data center management and monitoring tools on display. Use of this category of data center technology has…
How secure are your AI and machine learning projects?
When enterprises adopt new technology, security is often on the back burner. It can seem more important to get new products or services to customers…
Why ethical use of data is so important to enterprises
The ethical use of data goes deeper than simple regulatory compliance. Enterprises are waking up to a new reality in which consumers — and even…
AI center of excellence: A new engine for driving business transformation
When Shell first launched its AI Center of Excellence in 2013, it wasn’t even known as AI, but as predictive analytics, and it was tiny.…
Enterprise analytics benefits of natural language processing
When Siri and Alexa fail to understand their user, it may be funny or at worst annoying. In an enterprise setting, a failure of natural…
Top 5 predictive analytics use cases in enterprises
Many enterprises can benefit from using predictive modeling. As the technology gets more accurate, easier to use and cheaper, the benefits of this type of…
Why more employees need data literacy skills
Research shows that data-driven organizations are more successful, but employees often lack needed data literacy skills. According to a 2020 survey by Sapio Research, 80%…
Overcoming the top 3 analytics adoption challenges
Analytics is key to making smart business decisions, but not every analytics adoption project succeeds. And the more significant the project, the greater the obstacles.…
9 emerging job roles for the future of AI
AI is poised to transform nearly every industry, and with it will come significant changes for many job functions. Many roles across organizations will require…
Benefits of embedded BI and customizable analytics
Mighty nice enterprise application you’ve got there, shame it doesn’t have any interactive visualizations and your users are going blind from staring at rows and…
Data scientist vs. machine learning engineer careers
Whether you’re newly entering the workforce, have been recently laid off, are worried about keeping your current job or have been temporarily furloughed and have…
The most important soft skills for data scientist jobs
Jeff Herman is not a locomotives expert. His background is in math and engineering, followed by additional study in data science. But when he was…
Key considerations for choosing embedded analytics tools
Rajesh Gill has just a couple of people to help him manage analytics for a billion-dollar product. For the associate director of forecasting and business…
Top embedded analytics examples in enterprise applications
End users increasingly want more from their applications. If they see a data dashboard, they want to be able to work with the data –…
3 of the top use cases for graph databases
The typical image that springs to mind when you hear the word database is probably a table where each row is a separate record and…
The most in-demand data science skills you need
According to this month’s LinkedIn U.S. “Emerging Jobs Report,” data scientists had the third largest annual growth, with 37%, and have been at the top…
Private 5G keeps Whirlpool driverless vehicles rolling
5G promises super-fast connections, low latency and better coverage. In the manufacturing realm, early adopter Whirlpool is deploying a private 5G network in one its…